Student Life & Scholarship: Recent submissions

This paper presents an analysis of DP-internal only in English and Russian. I review the evidence in Coppock and Beaver (2012b, 2015) for definites containing only that do not presuppose uniqueness, and supplement it with ...

China’s long and vibrant history allows for the longitudinal study of events in order to contextualize and understand certain occurrences. More specifically, it grants a greater understanding of China’s relationship with ...

Asian Americanness is often described using language that marks this racial categorization’s hybridity and liminality -- the way that they are white, but not white enough and yet the way that they don’t cleanly fit into ...

In her 1978 neo-slave narrative Kindred, Octavia Butler utilizes the science-fiction trope of time travel to allow Dana, a Black woman from the 20th century, to travel to the antebellum South where she both witnesses and ...

This essay investigates the queer poetics of reticence and disidentification in the modernist poet H.D.’s personal archive and poem “Eurydice.” Using a letter found in the Bryn Mawr Special Collections that H.D. wrote to ...

In my thesis, I read Philip Roth’s American Pastoral as a metafiction text about its narrator: Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman is beset by conflict between him and his parents that took place in previous novels and inhabits ...

This essay explores how loss is structured by the lyrical, linguistic patterns and citational cadence of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. The text is constructed out of over two hundred fragments and loosely narrates the aftermath ...

This thesis examines the critical tradition surrounding William Wordsworth's The Prelude, and seeks to argue the continued importance of Nature in the development of his poetic or Imaginative capabilities. Specifically, ...

In this thesis, I examine Kurt Vonnegut’s use of science fiction elements in Slaughterhouse-Five and uncover how these elements contribute to Vonnegut’s anti-war message. I argue that Vonnegut employs science fiction to ...

Each text has a unique depiction of time and space, a particular way it leads its readers through narrative reality. This sensation of movement through time and space — referred to as a text’s chronotope — is often a product ...

The Best We Could Do (2017), a graphic novel serving as memoir by Thi Bui, employs formal elements of absence presenting in turn a recording of a narrative of absence salient in the memories of a family of refugees from ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Toronto, a ‘smart city’ project under development in the Quayside district of Toronto, is touted as a utopian panacea, promising to use ubiquitous Internet-connected sensors to redefine urban life. ...

Over the two decades since the end of the Apartheid regime in 1994, Cape Town’s cityscape has scarcely changed; little has been done to transform urban space. Hence, the city still exhibits deeply rooted separation, crime ...

The population is aging in virtually every country in the world, and population decline and aging have already become the most central challenge for cities in some developed countries. This project reviews the recent attempt ...

Within Latin America, Peru has one of the largest populations of Overseas Chinese* that is mostly concentrated within the capital city of Lima and traditionally centered in the Chinatown area dating back to the 1850s. In ...

A major sector under the sharing economy, home sharing is a newly emerged concept. This paper explores how the growth of home sharing influences the temporary accommodation markets in New York City. Using monthly data ...

This research aims to analyze the theory of thinking fast and thinking slow by studying how decision makers in the National Football League respond to high stakes and high visibility athletic testing results from the NFL ...